On Sat, 11 Oct 2025 23:19:41 -0000 (UTC), Slimes wrote:   
      
   > https://portal.mozz.us   
   >   
   > List of old school and modern minimalist services.   
   >   
   > Finger Gopher Gemini …and so on.   
      
      
   SLIMES!   
      
   This is cool. I haven't used gemini:// before today.   
   Currently lurking gemini://bbs.geminispace.org via amfora.   
      
   Just wanted to make it known that your post was witnessed.   
   Found something interesting to add as a side note...   
      
   Broadly relevant to why many of us are here:   
      
   > [The Gemini protocol] is explicitly designed to be non-extensible.   
   > To minimise the risk of Gemini slowly mutating into something more web-   
   like, it was decided to [include] one and exactly one piece of information   
   in the response header for successful requests. Including two pieces of   
   information with a specified delimiter would provide a very obvious path   
   for later adding a third piece - just use the same delimiter again. There   
   is basically no stable position between one piece of information and   
   arbitrarily many pieces of information, so Gemini sticks hard to the   
   former option, even if it means having to sacrifice some nice and   
   seemingly harmless functionality. 🗞️   
   https://lwn.net/Articles/845446/   
      
   More on why that "non-extensible" is relevant to keeping that protocol   
   free:   
      
   > How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)   
   gemini://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.gmi   
   https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html   
      
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